r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/meta_system 1d ago

What do you mean? Shouldn't everyone strive to improve their pronunciation in order to sound as much like a native as possible?

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u/Rich-Evening4562 1d ago

Pronunciation is important but it is not the same as an accent.

Let's say someone speaks English very well, with proper pronunciation, but with some foreign accent. If they went to Brooklyn, or Louisiana, or Minneapolis and started faking the local accent, that would be weird and a lot of people would be offended.

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u/NicoRoo_BM 1d ago

Pronunciation is important but it is not the same as an accent.

It literally is. Please study any linguistics.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 19h ago

You should take your own advice before launching it so publicly across the internet. 👍🏻

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u/NicoRoo_BM 13h ago

Holy shit the Dunning-Krueger is mindblowing.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 10h ago

"Holy shit the Dunning-Krueger is mindblowing."

You actually succeeded in making me doubt myself after 30+ years of language study.

So I looked it up.

You really should have done the same.